abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although extensive work has been done on cigarette smoking and its effects on pulmonary function, there are limited number of studies on water-pipe smoking. The effects of water-pipe smoking on health are not widely investigated. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of water-pipe smoking on pulm...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Aydin A,Kiter G,Durak H,Ucan ES,Kaya GC,Ceylan E

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) imaging is a useful modality in the detection of various tumors, including colon cancer and gastric cancer. We evaluated a patient with duodenal cancer with multiple metastases including brain metastases using FDG-PET imaging. It revealed multiple tumor up...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Watanabe N,Hayashi S,Kato H,Shimizu M,Kamisaki Y,Noguchi K,Kishida M,Matsunari I,Hisada K,Seto H

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Enhanced washout of 99mTc-tetrofosmin (TF) has been reported in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Here, using quantitative dual-autoradiography, the relationship between TF retention abnormality and metabolism depicted by 125I-BMIPP uptake was investigated quantitatively in a hamster model of c...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Thet-Thet-Lwin,Takeda T,Wu J,Tsuchiya Y,Itai Y

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole body imaging with radioiodine can detect functioning metastases, which can often be effectively treated with appropriate amounts of radioiodine. Non-physiologic I-131 uptake detected on images is usually interpreted as suggesting functioning thyroid metastases. However, extra-thyroidal I-131 accumulation does no...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ozguven M,Ilgan S,Arslan N,Karacalioglu AO,Yuksel D,Dundar S

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the lesion detectability of a gamma camera based coincidence detector system (c-PET system) in comparison to the dedicated PET system (d-PET system), and thereby clarify the feasibility of the clinical application of this system and also describe any factors influencin...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Koga H,Sasaki M,Kuwabara Y,Nakagawa M,Hayashi K,Kaneko K,Chen T,Honda H

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare histological findings of FDG-PET false-positive and true-negative hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes. METHODS:Sixty-seven lymphnode areas in 11 patients who were diagnosed to have N3 lymph nodes by FDG-PET and underwent surgery were histologically examined, and the histopathological findings in fal...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Shiraki N,Hara M,Ogino H,Shibamoto Y,Iida A,Tamaki T,Murase T,Eimoto T

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) myocardial scintigraphy is currently used to evaluate cardiac sympathetic nerve function, but MIBG also has the capacity to evaluate dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) severity and therapeutic effectiveness. In this study, we administered beta-blockers to a DCM hamster model and ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Inoue A,Yamashina S,Yamazaki J

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Poor and variable spatial resolution of the gamma camera, the movement of the heart and, above all, the inclusion of scattered photons in the acquisition data contribute to the deterioration of image contrast in 201Tl myocardium perfusion studies. Scatter correction algorithms may correct for the latter fact...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Blokland KJ,de Vos tot Nederveen Cappel WH,van Eck-Smit BL,Pauwels EK

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filtered back projection (FBP) method, maximum likelihood-expectation maximization(ML-EM) method, and ordered subsets-expectation maximization (OS-EM) method are currently used for reconstruction of SPECT images in clinical studies. In the ML-EM method, images of good quality can be reconstructed even with a small sam...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Takahashi Y,Murase K,Mochizuki T,Higashino H,Sugawara Y,Kinda A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of lung cancer arising from progressive massive fibrosis (PMF) associated with pneumoconiosis. In this case, fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) was able to clearly distinguish the lung cancer from PMF, suggesting a potential usefulness of FDG-PET in cancer screening ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Bandoh S,Fujita J,Yamamoto Y,Nishiyama Y,Ueda Y,Tojo Y,Ishii T,Kubo A,Ishida T

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation was conducted to determine the ability of 201Tl brain SPECT with respect to preoperative prediction of lesional aggressiveness of meningioma. Fifty-nine lesions in 42 patients were examined. Early (15 min) and late (3 h) SPECT were obtained. Early uptake ratio (ER; lesion to normal brain average cou...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kinuya K,Ohashi M,Itoh S,Sakai S,Yamamoto K,Kakuda K,Nobata K,Terahata S,Taki S,Kinuya S

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first clinical PET study using [1-methyl-11C]8-dicyclopropylmethyl-1-methyl-3-propylxanthine ([11C]MPDX) for imaging adenosine A1 receptors in the human brain. The binding of [11C]MPDX evaluated quantitatively as the distribution volume by a graphical analysis was high in the striatum and thalamus, and l...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Fukumitsu N,Ishii K,Kimura Y,Oda K,Sasaki T,Mori Y,Ishiwata K

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification and treatment of hibernating myocardium (HM) lead to improvement in LV function and prognosis in patients with post-ischemic heart failure. Different techniques are used to diagnose HM: echocardiography, MRI, SPECT and PET and, in patients with moderate LV impairment, their predictive values are similar...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Camici PG,Rimoldi OE

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 48-year-old woman with left adrenal tumor, which showed increased uptake of [18F] 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) was presented. Her adrenal tumor was incidentally discovered, although she had no remarkable illness, and her blood pressure was normal. Hormonal examination including dexamethason suppression test and ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Shimizu A,Oriuchi N,Tsushima Y,Higuchi T,Aoki J,Endo K

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite using various kinds of prognostic indicators, it is still not possible to predict the biological behavior of breast cancer in all patients. Tc-99m-sestaMIBI (MIBI) uptake determined by breast scintigraphy and cadherin expression of tumor tissue revealed by immunohistochemistry are suggested as potential agents...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Uğur Y,Sari O,Uğur O,Korkusuz P,Varoğlu E,Arslan N,Gürcan N,Yildirim M,Sökmensüer C,Aşan E,Aras T

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The FDG uptake in lung cancer is considered to reflect the degree of malignancy, while alterations of some tumor suppressor genes are considered to be related to the malignant biological behavior of tumors. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between FDG-PET and alterations in the tumor suppr...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Sasaki M,Sugio K,Kuwabara Y,Koga H,Nakagawa M,Chen T,Kaneko K,Hayashi K,Shioyama Y,Sakai S,Honda H

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:We assessed Takotsubo (ampulla) cardiomyopathy compared with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) using two-dimensional echocardiography and 99mTc-tetrofosmin myocardial SPECT. METHODS:We examined 10 patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and 16 with ACS at the time of emergency admission (acute phase), at three t...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ito K,Sugihara H,Katoh S,Azuma A,Nakagawa M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is in common use preoperatively to clinically evaluate patients who present with central nervous system mass lesions. The usefulness of PET is also recognized as a method to detect intracranial tumorous lesions. A number of papers reportthat some inflammatory processes also s...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Tsuyuguchi N,Sunada I,Ohata K,Takami T,Nishio A,Hara M,Kawabe J,Okamura T,Ochi H

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to re-evaluate and clarify the diagnostic role of ventilation/perfusion lung scintigraphy in Japan, now that single-detector-row helical CT and multidetector-row CT are available in clinical practice. The Respiratory Nuclear Medicine Working Group of the Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine di...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kawamoro M,Ogura Y,Honda N,Satoh K,Suga K,Mori Y,Imai T,Inoue T,Narabayashi I

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary involvement secondary to Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WMG) is described in a 40-year-old male by incidental findings on a bone scan. He was examined for right leg pain, and bone scan revealed unexpected pulmonary uptake of Tc-99m MDP. CT scan of the thorax revealed pleural effusion and slightly dissemina...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ortapamuk H,Alp A

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:In the management of rectal cancer after the combined therapy of the radiation and surgical operation, the evaluation of the prognosis is important. Although fluoro- 18-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) is considered as a useful tool for evaluation of therapeutic effect of this cancer as we...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Oku S,Nakagawa K,Momose T,Kumakura Y,Abe A,Watanabe T,Ohtomo K

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Two methods of quantitating cerebral blood flow (CBF) with iodine-123-labeled N-isopropyl-p-iodoamphetamine (I-123 IMP) and a two-compartment model had been proposed; one is the table look-up (TLU) method and the other is the autoradiographic (ARG) method. The TLU method provides values of the cerebral blood ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Inoue K,Ito H,Nakagawa M,Goto R,Yamazaki T,Fukuda H

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 62-year-old man with a soft, non-tender, movable mass 2.5 x 2.5-cm in diameter in the volar surface of the right index finger over the proximal phalanx underwent Tc-99m RBC perfusion and blood-pool scintigraphy to evaluate the vascular nature and extent of the mass. Highly increased activity on early and delayed blo...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Lim ST,Kim MW,Sohn MH

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, imaging techniques are the leading methods used to diagnose of metastasis to bone. However, these techniques are expensive, expose patients to toxic and radioactive compounds, and monitor response to treatment poorly; these drawbacks have prompted the search for alternative screening methods. Therefore, bon...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Koizumi M,Ogata E

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigated the changes in 125I-iomazenil (125I-IMZ) benzodiazepine receptor (BZR) binding with psychological stress in a rat model. METHODS:Six male Wistar rats were placed under psychological stress for 1 hour by using a communication box. No physical stress was not received. 1.85 MBq of 125I-IMZ was i...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Fukumitsu N,Tsuchida D,Ogi S,Uchiyama M,Mori Y

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case of inferior vena cava (IVC) thrombosis and pulmonary embolism secondary to acute exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis was reported. Radionuclide venography and lung perfusion scintigraphy were performed on a 46-year-old male with acute exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis who complained of mild swelling of...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ohta H,Hachiya T

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of an atypical bronchial carcinoid showing sestamibi uptake. A 27-year-old man with Kallmann's syndrome and hyperparathyroidism had parathyroid scintigraphy with 99mTc-sestamibi. A focal uptake was observed on the right perihilar region, and this right perihilar mass was demonstrated on computed tomog...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Yapar Z,Kibar M,Sükan A,Paydaş S,Zeren H,Inal M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The quality of images reconstructed by means of the maximum likelihood-expectation maximization (ML-EM) and ordered subset (OS)-EM algorithms, was examined with parameters such as the number of iterations and subsets, then compared with the quality of images reconstructed by the filtered back projection method....

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Takahashi Y,Murase K,Higashino H,Sogabe I,Sakamoto K

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:We studied the causative mechanism of ampulla (Takotsubo) cardiomyopathy. METHODS:We examined 7 patients with ampulla cardiomyopathy by means of coronary angiography, two-dimensional echocardiography and 99Tc-tetrofosmin myocardial SPECT at the time of emergency admission (acute phase), at 3 to 5 days after...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ito K,Sugihara H,Kawasaki T,Yuba T,Doue T,Tanabe T,Adachi Y,Katoh S,Azuma A,Nakagawa M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The purpose of this study was to validate a double-injection (DI) method with N-isopropyl-[123I]p-iodoamphetamine (IMP) to measure regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) twice in a single session of dynamic SPECT and to elucidate a possible role of this method to identify patients with occlusive disease of majo...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Ueno M,Nishizawa S,Toyoda H,Shimono T,Miyamoto S,Hashimoto N,Konishi J

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) has been used to confirm the localization of the epileptic focus and the evaluation of seizure. Recently, diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DWI) has been recognized for evaluation of seizure activity. We describe a case of transient seizure activity de...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Sagiuchi T,Ishii K,Asano Y,Aoki Y,Woodhams R,Yanaihara H,Kan S,Hayakawa K

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the usefulness of a combination of linearization and scatter-attenuation correction on 99mTc-bicisate (ECD)-single photon emission tomographic (SPECT) images, both cerebral blood flow (CBF)-positron emission tomographic (PET) images and ECD-SPECT images from fifteen patients with chronic cerebral infarctio...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Kado H,Iida H,Kimura H,Ogawa T,Narita Y,Hatazawa J,Tsuchida T,Yonekura Y,Itoh H

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review I summarize observations of PET and SPECT studies about cerebral blood flow and metabolic abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease. In very early AD flow or metabolism reduces first in the posterior cingulate gyrus and precuneus. This reduction may arise from functional deafferentation caused by primary neu...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Matsuda H

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial orbital cellulitis is an infection of the soft tissues behind the orbital septum. Cellulitis is seen as a poorly defined area of increased CT density or T2 signal intensity within the fat. There is an amorphous enhancement following contrast infusion. Radiolabeled leukocytes or granulocytes are now establish...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Sayit E,Söylev M,Capa G,Durak I,Ada E,Yilmaz M,Durak H

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scintigraphy with 99mTc-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid galactosyl human serum albumin (99mTc-GSA) was performed on 102 patients, then the hepatic extraction fraction (HEF), the rate constant for liver uptake of the tracer from the blood (K1) and the hepatic blood flow index (HBFI) were determined by spectral anal...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Fukui A,Murase K,Tsuda T,Fujii T,Ikezoe J

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared single-sample methods, proposed by Russell et al. and Bubeck et al., and camera-based methods in calculating 99mTc-MAG3 clearance, and determined camera-based methods that provide estimates comparable to those measured by the Russell method. Twenty-one patients underwent 99mTc-MAG3 renal scintigraphy, and ...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Inoue Y,Yoshikawa K,Yokoyama I,Ohtomo K

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 39-year-old woman with acute cholecystitis and gallstones underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy. She suffered from recurrent episodes of cholangitis due to injury of the major bile ducts during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Hepatobiliary scintigraphy with Tc-99m Sn-N-pyridoxyl-5-methyltryptophan was performed. Alth...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Nishiguchi S,Shiomi S,Sasaki N,Iwata Y,Tanaka H,Kubo S,Hirohashi K,Ochi H

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:99mTc-tetrofosmin, Thallium-201-chloride (201Tl) and 99mTc-MIBI imagings were performed in a patient with malignant thymoma. Tracer uptake in the primary tumor was demonstrated. The tumor-to-background ratios of planar and SPECT imagings were 1.60 and 1.98 for 99mTc-tetrofosmin, 1.12 and 2.09 for 201Tl, and 1.19 and 1...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Hashimoto T,Goto K,Hishinuma Y,Yachuda K,Sugioka Y,Arai K,Harada S,Goto M

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global and regional myocardial uptake was determined with technetium-99m tetrofosmin and a 4 hour exercise (370 MBq i.v.) and rest (740 MBq i.v.) protocol, in 24 patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus and in 22 control subjects. The purpose of this study was to evaluate impaired coronary microvascular f...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Tsujimoto G

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here a patient with mucosa associated lymphoid tissue (MALT)-lymphoma of the breast complicated with Sjögren syndrome. It is speculated that Ga-67 could accumulate not only in lymphoma lesions but also in benign lymphoproliferative locations of Sjögren syndrome. Gallium-67 scintigraphy might be useful for th...

journal_title：Annals of nuclear medicine

authors： Yoshimura M,Koizumi K,Satani K,Kakizaki D,Kawanishi Y,Ohyashiki K,Abe K

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00